Patriots spring up like mushrooms. I could raise 50 of them within the four and twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an immeasurable or insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Robert Walpole Quotes
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
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| Birth: | 26th August, 1676 |
| Death: | 18th March, 1745 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Statesman |
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Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC, known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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